Pelican are fed at the Nantong Forest wildlife park in Jiangsu province, China on April 6, 2022, which is being temporarily closed due to coronavirus. The staff will maintain the park’s 20,000 wild animals during the closure. (Photo by Sipa Asia/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A guard, wearing personal protective gear, receives goods from a delivery worker in a compound during a COVID-19 lockdown in the Jing'an district in Shanghai on April 8, 2022. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





U.S. born gold medallist freestyle skier Eileen Gu, or Gu Ailing, bottom centre, is directed to her seat as she walks by other athletes before a ceremony to honour contributions to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics at the Great Hall of the People on April 8, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)





Visitors wearing face masks enjoy cherry blossoms at the Yuyuantan Park during a spring festival, Friday, April 8, 2022, in Beijing. Three local officials in Shanghai have been sacked over a slack response to the COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest city, where residents are complaining that harsh lockdown conditions have led to shortages of food and basic necessities. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Visitors wear masks as they visit the 798 art district where access is controlled due to pandemic measures on Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Beijing. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a patient who has recovered from COVID-19, is disinfected as he leaves a makeshift hospital converted from Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing in Shanghai on Saturday, April 9, 2022. Shanghai on Sunday discharged over 11,000 recovered COVID-19 patients and health authorities emphasized that they must be allowed to return home despite the lockdown that has severely restricted movement in China's largest city. (Photo by Jin Liwang/Xinhua via AP Photo)





Visitors wearing masks take photos with art works at the 798 art district where access is controlled due to pandemic measures on Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Beijing. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Workers in protective gear watch over residents line up for the COVID-19 test at a residential block, Monday, April 11, 2022, in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province. The manufacturing hub of Guangzhou began tightly restricting departures and arrivals Monday as eastern China battles the country's latest major COVID outbreak. (Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask to help protect from the coronavirus is reflected in her wing mirror of her electric-powered scooter tied with a national flag as she waits at an intersection during the morning rush hour, Monday, April 11, 2022, in Beijing. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask to help protect from the coronavirus sends a masked child to school, Monday, April 11, 2022, in Beijing. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A person in a protective suit looks over barricades set around a sealed-off area, during a lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Shanghai, China on April 11, 2022. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A crossing guard wearing a face mask directs a bicyclist at an intersection in Beijing, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. The U.S. has ordered all non-emergency consular staff to leave Shanghai, which is under a tight lockdown to contain a COVID-19 surge. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





Commuters wearing face masks ride a subway train in Beijing, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





An aerial view shows local tourists visiting the Laomei Green Reef in New Taipei City's Shimen District on April 12, 2022. (Photo by Sam Yeh/AFP Photo)





Shi Zhongliang sprays disinfectants on the newly-arrived living materials in the evening in east China's Shanghai, April 11, 2022. Shi Zhongliang, a resident of Qibao Township, Minhang District of Shanghai, now renders his service as a volunteer in his community. His residential community has been under closed-off management since March 18 due to the resurgence of COVID-19. Soon after that, Shi joined the community volunteer team spontaneously organized by the residents from the same community. The team, with only seven members from the start, has grown as big as 40 within a month. Shi and his teammates are mainly responsible for delivering the living materials purchased online by the residents. To ensure the safety of the supplies before delivery, the volunteers disinfect every parcel. And the delivery work usually takes them about ten kilometers' shuttling in the neighborhood on a daily basis. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A tourist takes photos of blooming rosa banksiae along the Xuanwu Lake on April 11, 2022 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Yang Bo/China News Service via Getty Images)





An armed police officer attends an explosive ordnance disposal training on April 12, 2022 in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Yu Haiyang/VCG via Getty Images)





Medical workers in protective suits wave at Changchun residents during a farewell ceremony before returning to Meihekou, where they were dispatched from to help curb the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Changchun, Jilin province, China on April 12, 2022. (Photo by China Daily via Reuters)





In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a volunteer uses a megaphone to talk to residents at an apartment building in Shanghai, China, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Shanghai has released more than 6,000 more people from medical observation amid a COVID-19 outbreak, the government said Wednesday, but moves to further ease the lockdown on China's largest city appeared to have stalled. (Photo by Chen Jianli/Xinhua via AP Photo)





A resident waiting for a food delivery looks out from behind a gate blocking an entrance to a residential area under lockdown amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Shanghai, China on April 13, 2022. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)